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About the people who have contributed to the Blackdown Java porting project.
This section is about Blackdown's past. In order to understand the daily hype about Java (including what you hear about Blackdown), it's important to look back over its history. If you have anything to add to this section, please contribute.
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Until we can expand this section, here is just one tidbit to offer; the bug that popularized the request for Java on Linux at Javasoft: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4097810.html. Note that the Blackdown effort existed (and was arguably as important to the Linux community then as now) well before Bug Parade did!
There were a number of complex issues involved with this request, including the wide variety of Linux distributions, target architectures (beyond Intel where Javasoft already supports Solaris x86), the huge number of announced APIs with required native support, and so forth.
However, Javasoft finally released the JDK 1.2 sources to the Blackdown team, and provided measured engineering resources to help complete the port. You can read more about this in a press-release published on Javasoft's website. See http://www.javasoft.com/pr/1998/11/pr981102-01.html. For the information about Sun's eventual decision to support Java on Linux, see Is Javasoft going to support Java on Linux?.
For more information about Java's history, see section Why was the Java language created?.
Please see the far from complete biographical information in section Who Ported the Blackdown JDK?.
Any software project is about people. Here are some of the highlights. We've left out a whole list of contributors; please see the various distribution README files for details.
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This section answers questions about the people who've contributed to the Blackdown project.
Randy Chapman <chapman@wilbursoft.com> did the original port of the Solaris JDK 1.0 to Linux on the i386.
Steve Byrne did much of the work on the Intel port of Java 1.1.
Quoting Steve Byrne from http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/README/1.1/README.linux
Special thanks to Johan Vos (Sparc Linux port), Chris Seawood (GLIBC), Karl Asha (who gave us blackdown, thanks Karl!) Kevin Buettner, Scott Hutinger, Kevin Hendricks, Brian Keller, Philippe Laliberte and the rest of the PowerPC porting team -- these guys really fixed a *lot* of generic JDK bugs -- the 1.1.5 port is *much* better as a result of their hard work. Dan Powell and Rich Cannings have been very gracious to take over the administrative duties and to provide a site (and domain name) dedicated to java-linux -- thanks! [Also: Neal Sanche fixed the thread creep bug. Thanks, Neal!]
Regarding work done on Java 1.2, the http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/README/1.2/README.linux, file indicates:
The following people have helped with the porting of Java 2 to Linux:
Juergen Kreileder, Kevin Hendricks, Steve Byrne, Johan Vos, Anand Palaniswamy, Eddie Dost, David Connelly, Karl Asha, Kars de Jong, Scott Hutinger, Calvin Austin, Nigel Gamble, Michael Sinz and Brad Crochet.
If we've missed anyone, please let us know. Please pass on historical information to the FAQ maintainer.
Steve Byrne was educated at Carnegie-Mellon University, and among other things, managed Java-related projects at Sun Microsystems. In addition to contributing much of the Blackdown JDK 1.1 port to Linux, he has also been a long-time GNU SmallTalk maintainer. Steve has a small amount of info about himself at his web page: http://www.penguinis.org/~sbb/. For more information about GNU SmallTalk, see the Official GNU Smalltalk Page at http://www.smalltalk.org/versions/GNUSmalltalk.html.
Karl Asha from the beginning has been the maintainer of the web site, Blackdown's Java-related mailing lists keeper, and has managed product distribution. He's now taking on the central role of licensing administration, which can be a sticky wicket.
His first name spelled more correctly would be "Jürgen." He hangs out at University of Dortmund Fachbereich Informatik, and hacks on everything Java and Linux. Juergen has taken on an increasing number of technical management roles on the Blackdown Java project.
This section gives some background information about the FAQ itself.
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.From Writing: the Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page quoted in number 948 at http://www.samueljohnson.com/writing.html.-- Samuel Johnson, November 11, 1758.
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With help from the Blackdown Development Team, Stephen Wynne is the current FAQ maintainer. However, answers to questions found in this document are from a variety of participants on java-linux@java.blackdown.org. If you have any additions, comments, clarifications, or corrections, please send them to Stephen Wynne <stevemw@place.org>.
The most recent copy of this FAQ can be found at the Blackdown Documentation Page: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/FAQ-java-linux.html.
Full SGML source for the FAQ is available in the same directory: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/.
The FAQ maintainer is looking for the following information:
Not at this point. The FAQ requires a coherent effort to maintain, and dividing it among a relatively anonymous group of people might not help. One step we've recently taken is to move the source for it into CVS, and Blackdown developers are now beginning to share in its maintenance.
This document may contain technical information that is incorrect, out-dated, and may unintentionally misrepresent the opinions of java-linux@java.blackdown.org participants. Neither the FAQ maintainer nor the members of the mailing list make any warranty with respect to its usefulness or safety.
This document is copyright 1999 by Stephen M. Wynne. You may use, disseminate, and reproduce it freely under the Open Content License (OPL) provided you:
For the full text of the OPL, see http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml.
Although the FAQ maintainer takes responsibility for any errors in this document, some people have made a tremendous difference in producing this edition. Their patient assistance has been greatly appreciated.
This FAQ's content and structure was inspired by several documents produced by Eric S. Raymond. Eric also maintained an early HOWTO regarding Java on Linux. It's archived at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/java.html.
We've archived one of the text versions of this document (in this case
one Karl Asha wrote) plus a MINI-HOWTO of uknown provision:
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/README/1.0/Java-Linux-HOWTO
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/README/1.0/Java-Linux-MINI-HOWTO
The FAQ was produced directly from SGML with the SGML tools package
available from
http://www.sgmltools.org
v1.0.9, using the LINUXDOC.DTD (both available for
in RedHat 6.1 in standard RPMs).